I Bought 22 Untested Graphics Cards For £99 ($113)…
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Last week I purchased a box of 22 untested graphics cards for £99 ($114). The exact specifications were a mystery to me, but I couldn't resist buying these just to see what we got and whether any of them were working.
It's safe to say I got a few pleasant surprises!
Thanks for watching :)
My dad hates gaming with a passion, and I still remember when he took me to the electronics store to get my first PC and insisted to get one that could not play any games at all. Guys like him are probably why the GT 210 is still selling, if he read in a review that it was unable to play games at all he would consider it a feature.
Why such the hatred for gaming? Lol
@@jakestocker4854 because it is a waste of time
@@mtaufiqn5040 nearly every hobby can be considered a waste of time.
@@mtaufiqn5040 is this Garchamps dad? Lmao
@@jakestocker4854 In early 2000's the media had quite a critical stance when it comes to gaming(to say the least). So my parents always thought i would end up somehow damaged by lots of counter-strike.
p.s. They still hate games claiming there is a huge difference between board monopoly, chess and PC gaming.
The best one was obviously the Quadro P620, it has the same GPU as the GTX 1050, but it's a cut down version with 512 cuda cores with 2 gigs of Gddr5, should beat the GTX 650. Overall, the box did worth it if everything runs fine
Yeah I’ll have to benchmark the quadro properly soon 😁
Yeah that one gave me a bit of false hope for the remainder of the box. lol
@@RandomGaminginHD I use these on daily basis in my office, making some serious design work. Used them for 5+ years without problems.
I came here to say this. The performance falls between an gt 1030 and 1050
@@RandomGaminginHD 8400 GS 3-way SLI !!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁
Ah the 8400gs. The card that made San andreas feel like GTA IV. As in, performance-wise. Had this card as a stop gap between 6600gt and GTX 260. That was the first time in years that I completely stopped gaming for a while simply because the 8400gs was so terrible.
I had a 8400m thare are 3 types of them
I had luck that i had a one with 16 uni shaders stil with a 64bit bus .
Still play the game Fallout 3 with custom ini file in 1024/768 .
What time is that .
BRO! the 8400gs + Pentium 4 was my config when I first played Assassins' Creed 1. great memories
9600 gt was my first gpu. Man was that a good card for the time
Damn i still have one installed on i3 3220 pc... I know its dog is slow but i dont have onboard video output from mobo, so cant help it. my new pc got stolen from my business so went brokeass for old pc. Ryzen 3700x 16gb ram 3070 256gb nvme drive.
They're really good for Windows XP builds to play games from the early 2000s, I have a few machines I use for retro LAN parties
Use a box cutter next time, maybe I'll get my friend Gus to lend you one or something
Your friend Gus seems like a good lad
Those fanless cards are still pretty handy just as display outs. I use an old fanless GT520 in my NAS box because I want it as quiet as possible. You don't really need a display out for a NAS after you set it up, but it is nice to have in there for when I need to do trouble shooting. That Quadro p620 was a surprise.
One another usecase are untested motherboards since they can theoretically burn your GPU so You'd better have a bunch of "display outputs" just in case of troubleshooting unknown(especially older ones that usually go to "last hope" examination) MoBos or even whole cases.
5 years ago the GT 520 on my HP prebuilt started going bad.
I had the same GT520 as my gaming card back in 2011. I hate it with passion.
I literally just bought a untested Asus GTX 960 4GB from a thrift shop yesterday for less than 4€ and it turned out to work perfectly :)
Talk about a steal
Great value. What a legendary find.
I do love a box of "untested" graphics cards. Always fun seeing if you get your moneys worth.
The GT 710s are really useful for media PCs, as they have built-in 1080p hardware video encoder/decoder for streaming video, even if you're running on an old Pentium 4 with Linux or something. The 210 and 610 would probably struggle with that but would still be great options for office machines just needing display outputs.
13:28 Interesting cooling solution
Absolutely love this one Steve! U could easily pull off longer format videos! I'd love to see u build a Core2Quad/AMD Phenom XP Retro system with that R7 or that 650! Even if it took an hour, LGR style! I'm sure ur audience will love it!
If that Quadro works then that'd make the whole box worth it, even if it's all e-waste gt-210s. Being a 1050ti equivalent with Pascal NVENC & Quadro specific drivers it can do some neat things with GPU passthrough & encoding/decode for a media storage & streaming box.
It's not equivalent to a 1050ti, it's a cut down 1050 so quite a lot weaker. The rest is correct yes.
@@kajurn791 Like half the performance, still a cool card though.
Hey man you’re looking much better. You seem leaner and your skin looks brighter.
What ever you’re doing keep it on.
And keep the great unorthodox content as well, you’re a great asset to the RUclips tech community .
My account is older than dinosaurs and you’re one of the few channels I’m subbed to
He was pentrated
Kind of a weird comment to make on a channel about computers lmao. Just saying because it would make me uncomfortable.
The Quadro P620 will make an amazing transcoding card for Plex or Jellyfin. The lot is worth it for that card alone. That card is basically a cut down GTX1050 with less cuda cores.
I have an M620 with basically the same specs but using a GTX 950M chip cut down to 512 cudas too
Its almost the same as a P620
But it is mobile workstation card
It also isn't all that much slower than an actual 950M which is surprising
A video on the 8400 GS would be interesting, the came in a ton of different specs (8/16 cores) ddr2/3 gddr2/3, and the performance is absolutely trash, mine is about 4 times slower than my 8600gts...
It might be one of the weakest pcie GPUs ever...
Thare is a 8400 with 128bit memory bus.
That would be soo helpful 😭, im currently using the 8400gs and a video from one of my favourite RUclipsr on it would make me and potentially other PC enthusiasts very happy....
@@gauravsachdev2255 you should try overclocking it, i got something like 30 more perf on it, got mine close to 1ghz on air...
@@tomthb8439 that's the problem, I can't take any risks with it, since i have to keep it alive for one more year,if something happens to it I'll be PCless so.....
i use a 8400 gs in my main rig its better than my cpu lol (cpu is a amd athlon x2 220)
hey man im doing this school dissertation thing and the topic im doing it on is 'the evolution of graphics cards since 1999' and im supposed to ask an expert or someone experienced about stuff but none of my friends or family know anything ab graphics cards other than the vague explanations ive given them so i figured id ask you :) i was wondering what in your opinion is the most influential graphics card release since '99 - like a real ground-breaking gamechanger of a graphics card. love ur videos man, youre one of my fav tech youtubers by a long shot and id really appreciate it if you took the time to help me out!!
I dont think a single one will do
Well if you're limited to 1999 : GeForce 256 released the same year and basically kickstarted modern GPU era, before 1999 you should look into 3Dfx. Later GPU brought Vertex and Pixel Shaders that obsoleted a lot of older fixed functions pipeline but I don't remember that it was widely seen as a ground breaking gamechanger.
You should also look into Integrated GPU or Console GPU that may have helped bringing proper 3D graphics in every households.
Some notable game changers from old to new: GeForce2 Ti, GF3, GF4 Ti, Radeon 8500/9700/9800 -- era of DX8 and so-called shaders, Radeon X1800/X1950, GeForce 6800 -- era of DX9, Radeon HD 2900XT/3850/3870, GeForce 8800 -- era of DX10. Those were the rapidly evolving technologies where it suddenly would not be enough to know how much RAM and Processor speed one had to have, people had to follow closely what version of API they had hardware support -- it was a hell between DirectX 8/8.1/8.1b/9/9b/9c and if they didn't then it was game over because each step came with new generation of GPU. Also this was where AGP bus got taken over by PCI-Express -- some cards were made for both types of slots and some weren't so it was another headache for an enthusiast.
The R7 250 is a really great GPU if you know the limitations of it.
Bought the Sapphire 1GB GDDR5 model for 30€ a bit ago to put it in an i5-2400 build and it can run pretty well many games even some new ones (mainly new free games).
The best things out of this card are the low power consumption (max of 65w TDP),no pin needed,it has official overclocks by AMD and supports DirectX 12 in all of the games I tried.
I would like to see it tested in those AAA games that I don't own like Cyberpunk or Elden Ring just for curiosity.
I have a aokaman gddr5 4gb r7 250. I BOUGHT it 20 dollars and so happy until I found it 1gb GPU fake bios. But still GDDR5 memory. It crash under usage over 1gb video memory.
If it's DDR3 though, its performance is cut in half.
@@airmicrobe flash it with the correct bios man and you're good to go
@@airmicrobe for what I know the maximum VRAM of the R7 250 is 2GB for the GDDR5 and 3-4GB for the DDR3 version but I could be wrong.
As the other person said find the correct bios for it and flash it,you should find some guides online if you have problems and that should do the trick.
You should be able to enjoy some recent games decently but you could have some stutters because of the VRAM size.
@@klocugh12 True,but it's good too thanks to its clocks even if the GDDR5 is far better.
Difference is that finding the 2GB GDDR5 model,which is a sweetspot for low-end gaming,is harder and more expensive than finding the 2GB DDR3 model.
The 1GB GDDR5 is pretty good but stutterings and frame drops are a lot more common on many recent games,like I can play RE2 Remake on it on 60 FPS with decent graphics but it has some stutters because of the VRAM.
Cool, I like these suprise unboxings. That P620 alone makes it worth halfway already (a perfect candidate also for your style of benchmarking). Quadros are quite popular on the 2nd hand market, in some cases also for games due to a relatively power efficiënt focus.
If a customer says "I just want a graphics card for anything but games!" I go get a Ebay Quadro. No fuss and they work nicely for photo editing etc. Super cheap too.
Geforce 210 can also run Microsoft Office at 2k, you can't beat that :)
The DMS 59 connector was a way for businesses to hook up multiple monitors from one port, by splitting DMS 59 to either Dual DVI or Dual VGA. I had an ATI Radeon HD3450 with one of these, and just bought a DMS-59 to HDMI conerter since I have a lot of spare HDMI cables (plus all of my monitors are HDMI).
I used a 1GB DDR5 R7 250 for quite a few years before it died unexplainably. It is actually a quite capable card as long as you keep the resolution at 720p or maybe 768p. I'm really curious to see how that card would perform in newer games mainly because of the VRAM limitations.
The amount of effort it must take to test all these graphics cards with downloading the drivers etc then deleting them over and over must take a lot of time top marks to you 😁
Untested most of the time is just another way of saying it doesn't work, at least you got something lol
Yeah this time they said untested but most should work haha
Yeah that's definitely true most of the time.
I know some people got some deals from me selling truly untested parts back when I was selling a bunch of builds and parts a few years ago.
Had a handful of really nice Intel boards that would cost me more to get a CPU and test than I'd make just selling them off untested.
No, it just removes liability.
The little quadro is a “beast” compared to the others … test that one ! You will be suprised! I use it for emulation and retrogames and it is superb !
Hey Steve :) I know your videos are usually on the shorter end, but personally I would love it if you made more videos like this, or even longer honestly
You're always so calm and relaxed, it's just really nice to hear you talk for a while
I can't wait for the benchmark video 😊
Love these videos, even if they are a loss it’s really cool to see past hardware
2:42 As soon as you announced the Quadro P620, I said oh if that one works it's worth the whole purchase price! Not for meant for gaming (but still twice as fast as the GTX 650). They fetch good prices for use in workstations for CAD, and for home server Plex video encoding.
When the first card is a 210 you know you're in for a good time.
I'm legit impressed it was not a good deal despite it being almost two dozen GPUs. You can make some money selling them on office PCs with Ryzens and xeons i guess?
Being able to sell 'em all and make at minimum double what you paid isn't a bad deal in my book 😅
All those gpus need to be thrown out
Some people don't play any games at all, you bunch of closed minded cacti.
The 8400 GS would be a great card if you could get Win9x drivers working for it. I have had luck with other NVidia PCIe cards working fine under 98SE/ME though. Depends on your motherboard and the brand/model of the GPU…it can be hit or miss. For XP and later the 8400 GS and GT 210 are as you said display adapters unless you are playing some very basic games.
Awesome video, it's always fun to have a mystery box. I recently traded an old broken laptop for a gigabyte gtx680 2gb 3 fan card. It was in rough shape. Someone had taken the shroud and cooler off, then attempted to reassemble it. A few missing screws and the cooler could move around. After a thorough cleaning, new thermal paste, and scrounging up some screws; I crammed it in a Dell studio pc that had been given to me, and it works great. Temps rarely see 60c, that's something for a case with so little airflow. Even though it's old, I've never owned such a high end card, and it's running on a 450w psu. Just started an og Skyrim playthrough on it, such a blast
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Awesome video! like a PC enthusiasts' raffle. Could I suggest an overhead camera? it would be great for recording B-roll of a product whilst you do a voiceover and it would be perfect for stuff like this. Hope this helps! 👍
1:50 "Be prepared for a faily long one". You know what they say about braggers mate?
I was waiting for a comment like this 😂
The bubble wrap is probably worth more than the cards.
I wonder which cards will be in a box like that in the future? Maybe a RX 6400 or a GTX 1650. Or... probably the same exact cards, lol.
iGPUs are slowly taking the place of these low end cards, but I'd say a GT 1030 or RX 550 could be realistic.
i doubt youd find a still decent card like a 1650 in a trash boy like this.
gtx 650 worth around 30 to 50 bucks still is probably the best you could hope for in terms of value.
@@uteriel282 In the future you might, like 5-10 years from now.
Ha. Seeing CP2077 at 720p with the aggressive FSR made it look like a modern-retro game, like it was playing on a CRT or something.
I'm a bit of a sucker for Quadros, and that P620 looks very interesting!
It's the best card in the lot.
@@MandoMTL The P620 is great for Plex servers.
Yeah it should run fine, the r7 260 might also be great
My favorite channel with almost 500k subs with the same video quality and set quality as a guy with 20 subs in his grans basement.....never change HD never change
DMS card could be a DMS-59 or DMS-60 annoyingly there is a unique cable/adapter for each. Probably not worth the time possible to test the card via VNC/Remote desktop, remote on to the pc with the card in it will show if the card works etc.
I'd argue that P620 is likely the most valuable card - 2GB GDDR5 is way more memory than most of these cards and you should be able to get £70+ on eBay for it. Its performance should be far better than most cards there too.
Listen man can I have ur opinion I built a OptiPlex 9010 I7-3770 and I bought a Corsair atx power supply and a Msi gtx 1660superOc and idk if I should have done that cause I ain’t got much money
These videos are amazing! Love watching these untested videos. Keep on going with these, please.
I also like the 710 and 730 cards. Ideal for motherboards with broken onboard display ports. Also was good enough to upgrade my dad's PC to allow my niece to play Minecraft. Definitely still have a role even today!
Well overall because they all work definitely going to make a profit 6-months or 7 months from now. 😶 After you sell them all. Individually. But at least you got three still real cards. The rest exactly like you say display adaptor the actually use your computer on a monitor. And can play very very old games. In a very very limited wey . Hey the video cards for playing movies in insane pictures in from browsing and Web. But overall I'm going to see this is not something ... Then anybody should do and .bay . Unless you got like 20 computers who don't have a AGP Caroline you need to turn al on gen . Cool do . Call Daddy of the mystery boxes of GPUs definitely want to see it. If I get one of those and definitely going to make a video.aheheh.
RandomGaminginHD basically cleaning the marketplace junk and defectives
My step dad's rig has a gt 210 in it that I pocketed from when I worked at goodwill, they would throw all parts away... So I felt no shame in stealing it. It was a gigabyte model with a fan. The guy doesn't use his computer for anything besides netflix and to tell the time with his screensaver... Old people... So anything with an HDMI port.
I recently sold my rtx3060 to upgrade to something else, so I have no GPU to play games on at the moment. I then remembered I had an old GTX 650 like the one you tested here. Unfortunately the fans etc spin up but I can't get any signal from the card. Any idea of a fix? Seeing as you often dabble with 2nd hand and non working cards it's worth a shot asking
This “haul” is clearly an old office setup of PCs with their GPUs being sold off. Still interesting to see the Quadro P620 🥰💪✊
Just an avarage joe like us… love your content. Btw hair looking fresh… 😎
So fun that I got a box with almost the same gpus. Had the 5450, 6450, 8400 gt, a pegatron card, two firepros and a r9 270. Basically gave them all away for like 30 euros lmao
I loved this video! the way you talk about the cards is exactly how i feel about pcs. Please do more of these little bit longer ones
I always enjoy a big box of random hardware.
i wish i had that many old gpus. great content! keep it up!
We want a gt210 SLI video 😁😁
Cuz you have too many of them 😂
R7 250 got an updated June 2022 legacy driver (all the GCN 1,2,3 cards) or there's NimeZ .... actually, is June 2022 legacy as good / compatible as NimeZ, or does NimeZ still have the edge?
Also, Nvidia Kepler models got a "security update" driver in August
Staples will sell you a gt210 for 75 bucks
Used to have an MSI GTX 650 1GB in 2019. Served me pretty well as far as AAA games upto 2014 are concerned, and even the newer less intensive titles.
Would be super interested in a p620 review. Used these in many workstations!
8400 GS hahaha. The 8600 GS was my very first GPU and it was...well it allowed me to play games, that's about it. went from that to a GTX 280 in 2008 and man was that a massive upgrade (before getting squashed very soon by BFG Tech as a company closing and DX11 coming out on the new cards.)
Buying a new and decent GPU these days is so so much easier.
I played most of wrath of the lich king on an 8400 gs
That R7 250 is supported by Nimez drivers. So, it does have support. Sort of. From the modding community, not the manufacturer.
Exactly
As far as I recall, R7 250 is a relatively good one as well, even with HDMI broken. GT(X?)650 can be sold as "within MSR for Syberpunk" at this point🤣
the r7 250 is a decent card, i had one. did ok in some games. didnt test too many demanding games. the if you go to cex then the gtx 650 and r7 250 are not that different in price. you dont get any driver issues with the r7 in windows 10(ironically the r9 370 has terrible issues). he wont get a lot of money back unless he does a bundle, but will get a decent return. its bad how someone list this box for that much when majority of the gt 210 & 8400gs can be had for a fiver or less each.
the gtx 650 is to this day still usefull in low end gaming.
can easily run games like hoi4 on low settings.
its probably worth the most out of that whole box.
Good find there, even if a few of the cards were the same as each other. Also, you're right, the GT 210s are awful, in fact I'd go as far as saying a GT 210 is worse than the integrated graphics of your CPU (if you have anything remotely modern), so only really useful as a display adapter, for multiple monitors.
If you're going to sell any of these then I'd be interested to find out where you're listing them, as I know of at least one machine I have that could do with having a GPU on the cheap. It would be paired with a 2nd gen i3, 4GB RAM and a 500GB HDD.
6:47 that FirePro is literally a HD 5450 in disguise
Also try the NimeZ drivers with that r7 250
Yess I have an R9 290 and use nimez, it’s really nice
i don't know why but i enjoy content like this 🗿
Most of these are absolutely fine if all you wanted is a display adaptor for basic desktop work. Or if you want to do some retro-gaming or something they're fine for that. Or if you want to add an additional display port to an existing machine for multi-monitor.
An R7 250 was my daily driver some time ago. Worked fine for basic gaming, honestly. I'm not someone who needs 200fps in 4k to enjoy a game!
I love this man , truly he is just a genuine person
this gt 710 has no GPU fans, but a fan GPU 💀👌
longer videos pls
Hiii want one from theses 😧😍
They're not "untested" they're just broken graphics cards.
Man got a lootbox from a time traveler
I also got gpu sort of lootbox the other day- 8 gpus at 5$ each. Came out to be 3x Asus 8400 GS, Foxconn 8500 gt, PNY 8600 gt, Dell Radeon x1300 pro and 2x Pegatron GT 310 (210 rebrand). Was quite cool but 8400 gs sell for shit where I live so that's that.
4 way sli GT210 video when?
Haha I’ll have to try it
@@RandomGaminginHD Will it beat the legendary gt 710?
I think the strongest card is the quadro. It's the core of the 1050 but cut down. It should probably be closer to a 750. It would me a nice battle between the P620, GTX 650 and the R7 250 .
But the best matchup would be HD5450 VS GT610 VS GT710.
I'd resell the P620, GTX 650, 5450 and R7 240 individually and lot the rest. You'll make profit without a major headache.
Always prepared for a fairly long one from you mate :D
Great vid, love these mystery boxes ;)
Wow, the Quadro P620 alone is worth at least half of what you paid. Please benchmark it, if it's anything like the previous K620 (which I own) you'll see unbelievably low power usage.
I got 2 GTX 770's off ebay the other day and both arrived tested and seem to be working fine. Best thing was I only paid £37.50 each for them.
Gonna single handled run the GT 210 market in the UK.
😂
Watched half the video so far and it's like winning a prize consisting of crushing disappointment and crippling debt so far.. . Hoping it gets better from here
Finished the rest, it's like watching your uncle win the shittiest prize out a raffle where the top prize was a weekend break to Bournemouth with a Travelodge breakfast voucher.
@@neilsimpson79
the gt610´s and 710´s are decent for office work and the gtx 650 is ok for low end gaming.
not worth a lot but better than the rest by far.
0:30 CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER
I had Radeon 9550SE before.....I would be overjoyed to get something like GT 710 back then. Radeon 9550 SE had 64MB DDR1 VRAM and 250MHz GPU clock....lol.
8400gs and radeon 5450 are great for lga 775 or am2/3 systems where the integrated graphics do not work or work properly with windows 10. Perfect go-to.
The FirePro 2270 is basically a Radeon HD 5450 with a lower clock speed and GDDR3 memory, so expect performance in the same area as the HD 5450.
to be fair 210 ain't that bad. when I was 13 I was playing medal of honor 2010 and lots of other games.
I had pentium Dual core E5500
2GB ram and 210 1gb DDR2
I refurb used computers. The lower end 210's and the like I would put in my systems just so someone could have a DVI port. That's about it. I sell lower end OEM machines. So, it keeps the costs down, and I sell my systems on the cheap. Less than $50.
Well, 8400GS is basically GT210 - albeit on either 65 or 80nm process - whereas the GeForce 210 is on 40nm so... you basically got a ton of 210s.
"Mommy, Daddy! The garbage man is coming!
Nvm, it's just RandomGaminginHD digging through our garbage again." xD
I mean, even if you got were to get just 210s and 8400 GSs, with at least 6 of them working and selling for $20 each (a new 210 costs around $40 to $50 so $20 is a good price) you could at least get the money back, there are gonna be either retro builders or poor people that could get some use out of them old cards
when this video released, i was so jealous of the untested parts lot
now, after 1 year, i have finally found myself in (almost) the same place
got a untested pc parts lot for ~$35 (9 GPUs, 4 PSUs, 8 HDDs, 4 Motherboards, 6 DDR2 RAM sticks, 2 CPUs)
at the time of writing this, i didnt test all parts yet, but I just know 3 HDDs work and 1 of the GPUs works (HD4650 1GB GDDR2), and the PSUs are big duds (2 of them have cut cables, other 2 have missing modular cables)
even with the possible disappointment of parts not working
it is fun
I bought a GT 210 a couple years ago. There was a specific purpose for it, sadly newer 710's seem to be going for 5x the price for a nice 210.
I misredd (better spelling) as "I bought 22 untested graphics cards for £0.99".
Sounds like you're ready to build a bunch of Core 2 Duo retro gaming rigs with that haul!
That is pretty much what you would use 210s for.
210 one of famous card that every shopkeeper say - yes this graphics card will run all game 🤣🤣🤣
Watching you with that 650 I was dying...You could clearly see it had x8 lanes so I knew it wasn't a 750 TI...I'm like...stop talking, tell us the card name ARGH!!...Sorry about that.
How would that card you used on CyberPunk compare to the iGPU of the 3400G?
Bro....i use a trash R7 240....can you donate me card? atleast that R7 250 and a core 2 quad???
My current spec is too trash and can't even play gta 5 :(
my spec is Core 2 duo E8400
6GB ddr3 ram 1333 bus
Radeon r7 240 1gb gddr5
so please donate me atleast a core 2 quad....i live in bangladesh btw :) and i'm also a big fan....i really enjoy your benchmarks
I got HD5450 back in day as upgrade for 7300GS ... And I was happy because I could play Deus Ex Human revolution. And call of duty MW. It was good card for what it is ...
I just recently sold a set of graphics cards like this online for $10: a GT 620 2GB, an R5 240 1GB, and a Quadro 600.
Anything less than those cards and I don't even bother (like the GT 210 or 8400 GS), I just scrap them.
Hoping for an SLI 610 setup video now
Coming soon 😁